Join our technical leadership team in Engineering Services as an Engineer Senior - Lead. This role provides professional and technical leadership to a team composed of electrical and mechanical engineers and designers. As an engineer at Minnesota Power, your work will have an impact on climate, customers, and communities.
As a member of our Engineering Services team, you will help drive innovation across Generation and Enterprise capital projects while mentoring engineering staff and advancing cutting-edge solutions that enhance system reliability and customer operations. You will also support maintaining existing facilities by ensuring safe, reliable performance of current assets.
What You'll Do
- Supervise, mentor, direct, and provide technical leadership to electrical and mechanical engineering team members
- Lead projects and guide internal teams, consultants, vendors, and contractors to ensure successful project execution.
- Develop the engineering team and serve as a technical consultant and advisor across departments on generation and enterprise-scale capital projects.
- Develop and maintain credible and strong relationships with internal customers, consultants, contractors, vendors, government agencies, external customers, and the public in both an office and field setting.
- Develop and manage critical project elements including estimates, budgets, schedules, procurement, regulatory compliance, risk registers, design, implementation, project management, construction management, documentation and interdepartmental coordination.
- Analyze operational data and system events to help maintain reliability while recommending equipment and process improvements.
- Oversee company employees, interns, engineering consultants, and contractors to implement projects.
Why Choose Minnesota Power
Step into a senior technical leadership role where your PE license and 8+ years of experience directly impact both engineering excellence and team development. You'll lead a team to execute generation and enterprise-scale projects while building the next generation of utility engineers through mentorship and technical guidance. You will work from our Duluth headquarters office while also providing a field presence during our unprecedented expansion phase.
What You Bring
- Bachelor's degree in Engineering from ABET AEC accredited program.
- Professional Engineer (PE) license in the state of Minnesota is required.
- 8+ years of progressive engineering experience with demonstrated senior-level competence.
- A master's degree in engineering may be equivalent for up to 1 year of related experience.
- Self-motivated and capable of working both independently and collaboratively in team settings.
- Proven ability to lead teams, develop and create growth opportunities for individuals while fostering positive working relationships.
- Must possess and maintain a valid driver's license and be willing to travel to project sites.
- Occasional after hours and out of town travel is required.
- This position may be subject to assessment of skills, job match and/or aptitude.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience in electric utility engineering is preferred.
- Capital project management experience strongly preferred.
- Experience with utility infrastructure, regulatory compliance, and cross-functional leadership is preferred.
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